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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

What Are Some Healthy Snacks For My Pet Rabbit?

There are many great commercially manufactured rabbit foods in the marketplace for your pet bunny. Oxbow and Kaytee both make high quality rabbit diets, and there are many others. In addition to feeding a quality rabbit diet and feeding the proper hay, you may also want to give your pet rabbit some healthy snacks as a treat, or to use when training your bunny. There are also some seeming good things to feed but in reality, they should be avoided. Some common foods really have very little nutrient value as well.

Pet Care Tips provides the following about feeding healthy snacks for your pet rabbit:"As a responsible and caring rabbit owner you no doubt know that the bulk of your rabbit's diet should be
fresh grass hay, such as timothy, meadow, prairie, brome or
oat hay.

There are also a few other items that you should
add to your rabbit's diet for its good health.

Alfalfa Hay

Alfalfa hay is too high in calories, protein and
calcium to be healthy as a major food source for adult
rabbits, but you can give your adult rabbits small amounts of
alfalfa hayoccasionally as a treat. Young rabbits do need
some alfalfa hay as a regular part of their diets because they
need more calories and protein since they are growing and
are probablyalso more active than their parents.

Rabbit Pellets

Rabbit pellets such as are sold at feed and pet
stores are not suitable as the bulk of your rabbit's diet,
but you should offer a handful or so of pellets every day.

Fresh Vegetables

Leafy greens are great for your rabbits, and you
should offer them several types of leafy greens every
day. Be sure to introduce new vegetables slowly and one at a
time so thatyou can watch for any bad reactions such as soft
stools."